- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Dagger with obsidian blade and tapering handle painted red with carved geometric decoration highlighted with white and black. [SM 26/07/2007]
- Long description
- Dagger with obsidian blade and tapering handle painted red with carved geometric decoration highlighted with white and black. The decoration is in a band around the socket of the blade. [SM 26/07/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Bismarck Archipelago Admiralty Islands
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1928
- Date collected
- By 1928
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1928
- Materials and processes
- Material Obsidian Stone, Material Plant Nut, Material Sago Palm Fibre Plant, Material Pigment, Process Flaked, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Decorated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 301 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1928.53.15
- Research and responses
Ref. Robin Torrence. 2003. 'Ethnoarchaeology, museum collections and prehistoric exchange: obsidian-tipped artifacts from the Admiralty Islands.' World Archaeology 24.3: 467-481. On p. 472 Torrence describes the manufacture of these daggers, the handles being made of parinarium nut putty over sago fibre, painted or incised while still damp. [LM 30/07/2007]
1928.53.15
Dagger with obsidian blade and tapering handle painted red with carved geometric decoration highlighted with white and black. [SM 26/07/2007]
1928.53.15
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